''The
really sad thing is that when I was young Richard Moore
didn't seem a common name, however in the age of Google
it seems there are about 31 bazillion of us.'' - Richard
Moore the 27,000,000,001st.

IMMINENT NEW
PHOTO PROJECTS:Cook Islands Master Carvers at Work

Who
is this
Richard Moore?

Richard
J A Moore is an award-winning Australian journalist and
photographer.

Richard
has just finished his contract as a senior journalist on the Cook Islands News and is
returning to freelance photography and travel writing.

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Since 2015 he has had the opportunity to visit
the Solomon Islands four times and - you guessed
it - he has put together a website on one of his favourite
destinations in the world. The
Solomon Islands

A bit of fun in the sun on Rarotonga
as visitors cop a jetblast by the airport there. Authorities frown upon it, tourists love it! And locals enjoy watching the Papa'as make themselves look silly in the hot air wash from departing jetliners.

A rare glimpse into a unique spiritual festival on
the remote Solomons' island of Santa Catalina. Richard Moore
was invited to bring this amazing festival of worship and
spearfighting to the outside world. It was hard going in
extremely testing conditions ... but our boy did it.

Updated
with 60 more images: Cyclone Winstone is one of the
strongest storms ever seen and it devastated Fiji. I flew
up to the beautiful Yasawa Islands to document the destruction
and found out a lot about the strength of Fijians.

Travel
Communicators' Photo award:
Editor Richard Moore has won a prestigious NZ photo award
for an image he took in the Louvre Museum in France. Named
Selfie Heaven it shows a crush of people near the iconic
painting Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci.